[ale] hard drive won't mount

[James P. Kinney III]

I've installed RedHat 7.2 onto over 60 machines with none of these
problems. RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, it doesn't matter. They all use the
same code base. They put things in different location in the filesystem
(Grr!) but the filesystem utilities are the same. There may be version
differences between the distributions which might lead to some obscure
and infrequent errors. 

When a system develops a problem that is recurring and then a gradually
worsening problem that is related to hard drive functionality, it is
rarely software related. Software problems don't tend to accumulate and
worsen over time. They also tend to go away after a reboot. 

Hardware problems often start out small, seem to get worse/more frequent
then completely stop working. Some hardware problems are just
instantaneous failure.

Get a new hard drive. I recommend Quantum and Seagate drives for their
high reliability. Maxtor has really large drives and really short
warranties. They make the 90 day warranty drive that CompUSA sells.
Avoid them like the plague.

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:51, keith frost wrote:
> there is a chance the drive is not the culpret.
> i can't remember if it's this list or another but i've
> been hearing a lot of "disk problems" with people
> running RH7.2.  i've not used RH in awhile but
> Mandrake went thru a period a while back where some
> drives did not work well.  they would start off with
> minor problems and go down hill from there.  this was
> what drove me to debian.
> 
> something else you might want to check is what kernel
> it is using.  the 2.4.* kernel has a history of
> trashing filesystems.  in one article they called it
> the kernel of pain.
> 
> 
> --- Jim <jcphil at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > I already had some file system problems and now
> > things have gotten much 
> > worse. Whenever I try to boot up to Linux, it wants
> > to run fsck. But if 
> > I let fsck run, it won't complete but exits with a
> > "Signal 7". I can use 
> > Tom's Root/Boot disk, but it can't mount the hard
> > drive either. And of 
> > course if I try to run fsck from there, it also
> > errors out. Do I have 
> > any options left? This is a RedHat 7.2 distro.
> > 
> > 
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